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... chapels. It has been ascertained that pewter quart pot, with a slight addition zinc, will melt down into temperance medals. Blackberry wine muy be made with five measures if the ripe fruit, with one of honey and six of water, boiled and strained, and left ...

Published: Saturday 30 September 1843
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 286 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CRICKET. Southwell v

... at Belvoir. The annual match i Cricket for five pounds, given Lord John Manners, came off on Monday and Tuesday last on Blackberry Hill. Lord John Manners was on tbe ground, and also the Lady Adeliza Norman. Two tents were erected, one of which attracted ...

Published: Saturday 16 June 1849
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 426 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

HINCKLEY AND BOSWORTH

... left the neighbourhood. Xe«' Fact.-Many frame.vorkknitters of Deslord and other villages hare left their employment to blackberries, as they can positively earn more money than at their regular work. A ready market is said found Leicester for all they ...

Published: Saturday 12 September 1846
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 572 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Ashby=be=la=Zouch

... the property of Mr. Isaac Swift, on the 11th instant. appeared from the evidence of keeper that defendant was getting blackberries, and never saw him do anything else.—The Bench strongly censur ed the prosecutor for taking such advantage of defendant ...

Published: Saturday 24 September 1859
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 229 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Ashby Petty Sessions

... —Defendant said it was not likely he should be poaching with two children, he had been gleaning and stopped to eat a few blackberries which was getting at the time complainant saw appearing it was not his first offence, the Magistrate ordered him to pay ...

Published: Saturday 17 November 1838
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 292 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Suppression of a Chartist Meeting

... becoming men of war, far at least as preparation went, for we have been assured that loaded pistols were plentiful as blackberries. We are also informed that the Mayor of Hinckley refused to allow the meeting to be held, because no requisition had been ...

Published: Saturday 22 June 1839
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 338 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THE ELECTRIC INDICATOR

... make our word)—tho miracles of art and invention and discovery have become so very plentiful, even to exceed Falstaff's blackberry crop of reasons, that we no longer feel or express any astonishment at the impossibilities and improbabilities yesterday ...

Published: Saturday 28 December 1850
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 374 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

POETRY. ONCE UPON A TIME! mint', me of pleasant time, season long ago— Tn I've ever knoSim, Or ever now

... the detf. The morning mist and evening haze (Unlike this cold grey rime) woven warm golden hair— When I was my prime. And blackberries, so mawkish now, Were finely flatouAl then : And nuts—such reddening clusters ripe I ne'er shall pull again. Nor strawberries ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1847
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 347 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Varieties and Literary Extracts

... some woman ° Expl icit —There a white blackberry described as being, when fully ripe, of a light greenish colour. A friend, wbo very blue, desirous of knowing if they are red when green, like the black blackberry ? Mr. S. Carter Hall told the following ...

Published: Saturday 27 June 1857
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1040 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Market Harborough

... Harborough, charged Crofts, ot iiraybrook, with assaultingdiim October 7. Complainant and several other chUdren were gathering blackberries, when defendant took them away, beat the complainant, and set a large shepherd dog on him. The other children confirmed ...

Published: Saturday 30 October 1852
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1062 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Itettering

... determined to make an example of the first offender he could detect.—Defendants said they taking walk, and gathering few blackberries, and had no intention to take any the roots home. Bugby said he was dry, and only took a turnip to quench his thirst. peeled ...

Published: Saturday 11 October 1856
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 426 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Clerical Justice.—Paltry Charge

... nor any damage proved. If such petty coses were to the subject of summary convictions, any individual for gathering few blackberries by tbe road-side, or the weary traveller who quenched his thirst at a pool of water belonging to any other person, might ...

Published: Saturday 17 October 1840
Newspaper: Leicestershire Mercury
County: Leicestershire, England
Type: Article | Words: 575 | Page: 2 | Tags: none